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The coat of arms of Spain represents Spain and the Spanish nation, including its national sovereignty and the country's form of government, a constitutional monarchy. It appears on the flag of Spain and it is used by the Government of Spain, the Cortes Generales, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and other state institutions.
Definitions. The "coat" of arms, or more correctly the achievement, in Spain is composed of the shield, a cape which can be simply drawn or ornate, a helmet (optional) or a Crown if for a member of the nobility and a motto (optional). In Spanish heraldry, that which is placed on the shield itself is the most important.
Peña (surname) Peña or de la Peña is a Spanish habitation surname. The origin of the surname can be traced directly to the Middle Ages; the earliest public record of the surname dates to the 13th century in the Valley de Mena (Burgos) in the Kingdom of Castile. The origin of the last name is in present-day Galicia, Spain.
Spanish. Origin. Meaning. "son of Ramiro ". Region of origin. Castile. Ramírez is a Spanish-language patronymic surname of Germanic origin, meaning "son of Ramiro ". [1] Its correct spelling in Spanish is with an acute accent on the i, which is often omitted in English writing. It is the 28th most common surname in Spain.
History. In Spain, the surname Flores is first found in the Kingdom of Asturias, where the Visigothic royal court took refuge after the Muslim Invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. [1] In its origin, it is a patronymic of the Visigothic given name Fruela or Froila.
Alfredo Nobre da Costa, (1923 - 1996), Português politician who also had Goan Konkani, Italian, French, and Danish ancestry, Prime Minister of Portugal from 28 August 1978 – 22 November 1978. Andrea Costa, Italian socialist activist. António Costa, current Portuguese prime-minister.
A. A solis ortu usque ad occasum. Coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon. Armorial of the Spanish Armed Forces.
Tovar (surname) The coat of arms of the Tovar family of Spain and Portugal, as it appears in a 17th-century nobiliary record. Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from ), is a surname that was adopted in the Middle-Ages by a Castilian noble house that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III.